dallas-willard Quotes About thinking

“We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness.”

“Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Use Happens Belief Theology Passing Passings Passing By

Author:Dallas Willard

“To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly obvious to ourselves and all those around us. It means to live in such a way that when people see us they think, Thank God for God, if God would create such a life.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Greatness Goodness Obvious Thank God Glorify

Author:Dallas Willard

“Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.”

Thinking Today Strong Importance Regard Disregard Good Thinking Strong Faith

Book:Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.”

Thinking Home Christian Christ Special Normal Workplace Parts Of Life Specialness

Author:Dallas Willard

“Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness”

Thinking Way Humans Two Kingdoms Way Of Thinking Two Ways Cleverness

Author:Dallas Willard

“Dallas Willard warns us too of the "cost of non-discipleship." We may be able to live with some pain, but when our whole self becomes more and more rotten, the cost is far greater than dealing with the problem as soon as possible. This is why I think following Jesus, though challenging, is much easier than following anything else. The world has nothing better to offer me. Jesus has come to right my wrongs and to make me refreshingly new.”

Thinking World May Self Whole Problem Able Pain Jesus Challenges Greater Easier Cost Offers Following Discipleship Rotten Following Jesus Dallas

Author:Dallas Willard

“The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.”

People Thinking Wells Earth Causes Depends Prospering

Book:Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.”

Thinking Feels Mind Persons Matter Wish Conditions Adults

Author:Dallas Willard

“What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.”

Thinking Facts Light Given Activity Being True Assumption

Author:Dallas Willard

“Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.”

Thinking Evil Favors Crooked

Book:Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn't! It's in the mind - how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It's in our feelings. It's in our body.”

Thinking Way Mind Feelings Body Common Mistake Transformation One Way

Author:Dallas Willard

“We don't save our soul and leave our emotions and our feelings and our body and all the rest of it out. That's just a way of talking that emphasizes the soul is so fundamental that we can, in some cases, treat it as the whole person because it actually is the thing that integrates all of these aspects of the self and makes them work together. Now, I don't think we can find a passage in the Bible that says that. We have to read and study how it addresses the soul, and we then see that it is the deepest, most vital part of the human self.”

“Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's the faculty of choice. And then you want that faculty governed by the truth of God and the Spirit of God.”

Thinking Want Soul Whole Running Spirit Choices Computer Executives Faculty Spirit Of God Truth Of God Computer Systems

Author:Dallas Willard

“I was in a fascinating meeting where one man had been in China recently. A Chinese professor has found evidence that Christians reached Western China before 90 AD. Before 90 AD! The idea isn't all that astonishing when we think about it. That's what the disciples thought they were supposed to do! And, I'm sure, the disciples just said, "That's it. Let's go!" And they all wound up dead. But everyone else did too!”

Thinking Men Said Ideas Christian Found Evidence Meetings Western China Wounds Chinese Fascinating One Man Professors Ads Disciple Astonishing

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“We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it they're doing something good. Really, they're just deluding themselves.”

People Thinking Believe Kind Stuff Church Don't Believe All Kinds

Author:Dallas Willard

“Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.”

Ifs Thinking Facts Struggle Ease Great Faith

Book:Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.”

Thinking Want Needs Facts Voice Dues Voice Of God Hearing God

Author:Dallas Willard

“No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.”

Thinking Needs Problem Might Purpose Father Heaven Worry Succeed Our Father Bargains Cheated Underestimated Agility

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“God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our thoughts most upon? Can we say we are ravished with delight when we think on God? Have our thoughts got wings? Are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and glory? A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.”

Thinking Heart May Christ Judging Horror Glory Tests Wings Crowds Delight Treasure Sinner Prisoner Contemplating Our Thoughts Our Love

Author:Dallas Willard

“Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.”

Thinking Today Social Enjoy Powerful Intellectual Propaganda Skeptic Conformist Individualistic

Book:Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.”

Thinking Jesus Areas Competent

Author:Dallas Willard

“A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.”

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Author:Dallas Willard

“The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.”

Thinking Father Prayer Results Our Lives Praying Areas Response Our Father Request Confidence In God Spills

Author:Dallas Willard

“Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.”

Thinking Knows Believe Humans Human Beings Worship Claims Bounds Core Defined

Author:Dallas Willard

“Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.”

Thinking Has Beens Ideas Reason Done Lost Term Moved Contemporary Reason Why Discipleship

Author:Dallas Willard

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